War Crimes Research

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War Crimes Research

• The Judge Ben C. Green Law Library
• Fall 2009

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War Crimes Portal

• http//www.law.case.edu/war-crimes-research-portal
  /
• See an example of a completed Memo.
• See if anyone has written on your topic in
  another context (e.g. for a different Tribunal).
• For comparative law questions, see the range of
  countries covered.
• For international law questions, get a feeling
  for relevant treaties that you may need.

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Portal Caveats

• Give attribution if you use another Memo.
• Dont plagiarize.
• Dont plagiarize.
• Dont plagiarize.

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Foreign Law

• World Legal Systems (Ottawa U.)
• http//www.droitcivil.uottawa.ca/world-legal-syste
  ms/eng-monde.html
• Links to Foreign Govt Publications
  (Northwestern)
• http//www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/resourc
  e/internat/foreign.html
• may link to a countrys legislature or courts
• GlobaLex (NYU Law)
• http//www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/
• LLRX
• http//www.llrx.com/comparative_and_foreign_law.ht
  ml

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Foreign Law Starting Points

• Foreign Law Current Sources of Codes and
  Jurisdictions
• Law Reference K 38.R49 1989-
• finding tool that identifies where (in the
  vernacular) a countrys criminal law is published
  whether it is translated in an accessible
  language

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Foreign Law (contd.)

• International Encyclopaedia of Laws Criminal
  Law
• Law Reference K 48.I5846 1993-
• Scholarly summaries of criminal law for 20
  countries (currency varies)
• Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark,
  Greece, India, Kenya, Morocco, The Netherlands,
  Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, Turkey,
  Uganda, U.K., Yugoslavia, Zimbabwe

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Iraqi Criminal Law (Old New)

• Grotian Moment Blog
• http//www.law.case.edu/saddamtrial/

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Secondary Sources

• Foreign international legal sources often lacks
  traditional U.S. finding tools.
• Books (Treatises)
• Finding tools online catalogs, BIP, WorldCat
• Matthew Bender via Lexis
• Some West looseleaf services via Westlaw
• Scholarly Articles
• Finding tools indexes (citations, hybrids, )
• Full-Text sources

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Online Catalogs

• EuclidPLUS (Case libraries)
• OhioLINK (Ohio academic libraries)
• Patron-initiated ordering
• 2-5 day delivery by courier
• Four renewals allowed (if no holds on books)
• Overdue fines cannot be waived
• WorldCat
• RLG Union Catalog

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Foreign Law Treatises (Books)

• search online catalog (http//catalog.case.edu or
  http//olc1.ohiolink.edu/search/) for LC subject
  heading and the name of the country
• law Bulgaria ( hope for chapter on criminal law)
• criminal law France (limited to English results)
• evidence Australia

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Foreign Law Treatises (contd.)

• If LC subject heading is unknown, start with
  keyword search.
• When relevant title is found, click on the
  subject headings to find additional books on the
  subject.

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Sample EuclidPLUS record

• CALL        KTJ379.5 .T47 1999.
• AUTHOR       Thompson, Bankole
• TITLE        The criminal law of Sierra
• IMPRINT      Lanham, Md. University Press of
  America, c1999.
• DESCRIPT'N   xxii, 339 p. 24 cm.
• NOTE         Includes bibliographical references
  (p. 307-310) and indexes
• SUBJECT      Criminal law -- Sierra Leone.
• OCLC        40119778.
• ISN/STD     0761812989 (cloth alk. paper)

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Sample EuclidPLUS record

•     Limited to LANGUAGE "English"
• Author Bambale, Yahaya Yunusa
• Title Crimes and punishments under Islamic law.
  Malthouse Press Limited, 2003 (2nd ed., 119
  pages)
• Cleveland State Law Stacks Base Level KBP3791
  .B36 2003 AVAILABLE
• CWRU Law Library Stacks KBP3791.B36 2003
  AVAILABLE
• Ch. 1 The concept of crime
• Ch. 2 Features of Islamic criminal liability
• Ch. 3 Defences to Islamic criminal liability
• Note Includes bibliographical references (p.
  114-115) and index.
• Subject Criminal law (Islamic law)

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Foreign Criminal Law Treatises

• Canadian Criminal Law, a treatise (4th ed.)
• KE8809 .S78 2001
• The 1997 Criminal Code--PRC (China)
• KNQ3794.31997.A6L6 1998
• French Criminal Law
• KJV7979 .E435 2001

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Foreign Criminal Law Treatises

• German Penal Code
• KK7975.51871 .A52 2002
• India Penal Code
• KNS3800.J4238 1987
• Dutch Penal Code (Netherlands)
• KKM3794 .31881 .A52 1997
• Criminal Law of Scotland (3d ed.)
• KDC913 .G67 2000 v.1 (v. 2 on order)

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Foreign Law -- Constitutions

• Constitutions of the Countries of the World
• Law Stacks K 3157.A2B58 1971-
• Constitution Finder
• http//confinder.richmond.edu/

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Foreign Law Updating

• Global Legal Information Network
• http//www.glin.gov/
• Hit or miss
• Martindale-Hubbell Law International Law Digest
• Reserve KF 190.M32/Lexis
• current law surveys for approx. 60 countries
• last resort
• Eurocentric

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Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals

• OhioLINK research database
• http//www.ohiolink.edu/resources/dblist.php?byal
  phasearchi-k
• Only provides citations Get article from other
  online/print sources
• Articles may not be in English
• Interlibrary Loan for articles not available on
  campus or online
• http//www.law.case.edu/tech_library/
• ILL may take several weeks and/or may be
  unsuccessful

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International Law

• What is International Law?
• Article 38 ICJ Statute
• . a. international conventions, whether general
  or particular, establishing rules expressly
  recognized by the contesting states
• b. international custom, as evidence of a general
  practice accepted as law
• c. the general principles of law recognized by
  civilized nations
• d. subject to the provisions of Article 59,
  judicial decisions and the teachings of the most
  highly qualified publicists of the various
  nations, as subsidiary means for the
  determination of rules of law.

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Public International Law

• Laws of International Organizations (UN, EU,
  International Tribunals, Economic Development)
• Laws of International Relations (treaties,
  national security, state-state relations.
• Laws of the Commons (law of the sea, space, air,
  environment).
• Laws of Human Rights (covenants, accords,
  conventions).
• Laws Concerning Individuals (immigration,
  naturalization, labor laws, extradition).

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ConventionsTreaties

• Traditional Sources
• U.N.T.S. (multilaterals cite if possible)
• UST/T.I.A.S. (if U.S. is a party)
• Internet Sources for Research
• http//www1.umn.edu/humanrts/
• http//www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/TOPICS?OpenView
  (International Red Cross)
• http//fletcher.tufts.edu/multilaterals.html
• travaux preparatoires

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International Case Law

• All tribunals have their own websites by which
  they distribute documents
• http//www.un.org/icty
• http//ww.un.org/ictr
• http//www.sc-sl.org/
• http//www.eccc.gov.kh/
• http//www.icc-cpi.int/
• Westlaw also has ICJ, ICTY ICTR

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Humanitarian Law

• http//www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/s
  ection_ihl_treaties_and_customary_law?OpenDocument
  
• International Red Cross
• Pictet

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International Law Research

• International legal topics and humanitarian law
  topics would be included in the two major
  traditional U.S. legal periodical indexes, online
  catalogs, EJC, other indexes, and full-text
  sources
• Index to Legal Periodicals (and Books)
• Legal Resources Index/LegalTrac/CLI
• available via either Lexis or Westlaw

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U.N.

• http//ww.un.org (official site)
• http//documents.un.org (online docs)
• http//www.un.org/Depts/dhl/ (UN library)
• U.N. library depository program

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OhioLINK

• To find account number
• http//library.case.edu/loc/caseacct/
• To set up PIN number (for off-campus access
  self-renewal)
• https//catalog.case.edu/patroninfoS0/
• Overdue fines cannot be waived, but four renewals
  are allowed if no holds are placed on the books.

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OhioLINK Quick and Easy

• Electronic Journal Center
• many abstract most articles are full-text
• Academic Index
• some full-text sources some citations
• PAIS (good to find authoritative web sites)
• ILP, if not via Lexis or Westlaw
• QuickSearch (very unique names/terms)
• Find It (search for full-text)
• http//scholar.google.com/

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Indexes (Legal)

• http//www.cwru.edu/uclibraries.html
• Index to Legal Periodicals (Lexis/WestlawILP)
• LegalTrac (Westlaw LRI)
• IFLP LJI (foreign European)
• Public Affairs International
• Public International Law (RAVE)
• CILP
• SSRN

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Indexes (Other)

• OhioLINK v. Case databases
• Off-campus OhioLINK access with PIN
• Limiting options (full-text scholarly articles,
  etc.)
• Selected Titles
• Academic Source Premier Expanded Academic
• Social Science Index, etc.
• EthnicWatch and GenderWatch
• http//books.google.com/
• Find relevant books order via OhioLINK/ILL.

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Indexes (Commercial)

• http//www.ingentaconnect.com/
• O.K. to search for cites, if desperate.
• Check CWRU Law resources for availability and or
  order via ILL (if not on campus/OhioLINK) instead
  of paying for the articles.

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Full-Text Sources

• Lexis LAWREVALLREV
• Westlaw JLR TP-ALL
• Field searching/ Boolean/Natural Language
• BNA resources (via Intranet OR Lexis)
• Hein Online
• OhioLINKs Electronic Journal Center
• JSTOR, Project Muse, etc.

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Lexis

• http//web.lexis.com/xchange/practiceareas/

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Westlaw

• Key Search
• By topic
• Results Plus
• Retrieves secondary sources for search run in a
  primary (statute/case) law database

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OhioLINKs EJC sample

• The Law and Practice of International Courts and
  Tribunals
• Volume 4, Issue 2, July 1, 2005
• The Role of Presumptions in International
  Tribunals
• Franck, Thomas Prows, Peter pp. 197-245
• Article Description 
• The Burgh House Principles on the Independence of
  the International Judiciary
• Sands, Philippe McLachlan, Campbell Mackenzie,
  Ruth pp. 247-260
• Article Description 
• The Potential for Arbitration of Cultural
  Property Disputes Recent Developments at the
  Permanent Court of Arbitration
• Daly, Brooks pp. 261-280
• Article Description 
• The Price of International Justice
• Romano, Cesare pp. 281-328
• Article Description 
• Procedural Developments at the International
  Court of Justice
• Müller, Daniel pp. 329-354
• Article Description 
• The International Criminal Court
• Ciampi, Annalisa pp. 355-369

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EJC sample (contd.)

• European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and
  Criminal Justice
• Volume 13, Issue 3, August 1, 2005
• The Decline of the Nationality Exception in
  European Extradition?
• Deen-Racsmány, Zsuzsanna Blekxtoon, Judge Rob
  pp. 317-364
• Article Description 
• Criminal Jurisdiction Over Transnational Speech
  Offenses
• Decroos, Matthieu pp. 365-400
• Article Description 
• Contempt in the Face of the Court and the Right
  to a Fair Trial
• Emilianides, Achilles pp. 401-412
• Article Description 
• The Roles of International Police Cooperation
  Organizations
• Gerspacher, Nadia pp. 413-434
• Article Description 
• Developing Policies for Cybercrime
• Moitra, Soumyo pp. 435-464
• Article Description 
• New Criminological Literature in Europe
• Wynhoff, Elisabeth pp. 465-482

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EJC sample (contd.)

• International Criminal Law Review
• Volume 5, Issue 2, June 1, 2005
• The Development of the Concept of Joint Criminal
  Enterprise at the International Criminal Tribunal
  for the Former Yugoslavia
• Haan, Verena pp. 167-202
• Article Description 
• Mens rea Mistake of Law Mistake of Fact in
  German Criminal Law A Survey for International
  Criminal Tribunals
• Elewabadar, Mohamed pp. 203-246
• Article Description 
• Egypt and Current Efforts to Criminalize
  International Crimes
• El Zeidy, Mohamed pp. 247-266
• Article Description 
• Amnesties and the Rome Statute of the
  International Criminal Court
• Gropengießer, Helmut Meißner, Jörg pp. 267-300
• Article Description 
• Book Review
• pp. 301-309
• Article Description 
• Erratum
• pp. 310-310

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Legislation and Leg. History

• http//thomas.loc.gov
• Westlaw legislative history links
• OhioLINK Lexis Congressional Universe
• USCCAN (1945-)
• Case Law research guide
• Ohio Legislative Service Commission
• http//www.lsc.state.oh.us/
• Ohio Capitol Connect

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